1) Decorate your house- who cares what everyone thinks, your kids will love it disabled or not disabled. (Remember that you only live once and what better way than to make your kids happy. The disabled child will benefit from looking at the decorations and the undisabled child will benefit from looking and helping to decorate. So stream the streamers across the ceiling and I even went to the extreme of hanging door beads on the curtains to help break Austin of light gazing at the white curtains. Due the fact we thought he might be suffering from Cortical Visual Impairment.
2) Chiropractor and Cranial Sacral Physician
3) ISU engineering students and I designed a ROM exerciser for Austin. This machine is designed to do ROM up and down movements at a slow - fast pace motion to keep the ROM in a disabled child's legs. Below are pictues of the design. ISU engineering dept. donated the machine to Area Education Agency in Ames, Iowa in memory of Austin Junk. |
